PUREBRED STOCK AT HOME.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 9

PUREBRED STOCK AT HOME.

Sales of purebred stock are of interest (writes the London .correspondent of the Press) as showing the types at present most in favour amongst breeders. British Friesian cattle did not maintain at various sales the prices made by the South African Friesians ai Slough. '.At this sale 83 Home Friesians averaged £66 12s 4d, and 89f £161 15s Bd. At Wrexham iShojrtho!r>ns .averaged as (follow^: cows, £141 12s 9d, 7 bulls £72. the highest price being for a cow, 460 guineas. Red Polls averaged £154 13s 7dfor 38, highest price being 380 guineas, whilst Jerseys at one sale averaged £88 6s 8d for 103 head, and at another £69 5s 4d for 63 head.. In sheep the Down breed top the sales for price, Hampshire and Southdowns top the ]ist of recent sales. Suffolks are $ very strong competitor with these, the latter being used largely in Scotland for crossing for fat lambs., the cross throwing very fine lambs which grow quickly and are readily sold at good prices. Tlie public taste for mutton and lamb since the termination of control has been for ..light cuts. No I doubt growers will have noticed the low price ruling for heavy carcases, the lighter wieghta "realising better prices, and anything showing trace of Down breeding : usually realising top prices. This has given an impetus to the lighter breeds of "sheep and these are now firmly established as the ones giving ■ best results t& the grower and seller.